Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The large network of sympathetic nerves and ganglia located in the peritoneal cavity behind the stomach and having branching tracts that supply nerves to the abdominal viscera.
- noun The pit of the stomach.
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- noun anatomy A complex network of
nerves andganglia , located within theabdomen behind thestomach .
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- noun a large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From its radially branching ganglia.]
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treeseed commented on the word solar plexus
This is the area of my body that hurts when my heart is truly broken.
January 20, 2008
yarb commented on the word solar plexus
When I was small I was always told to aim for the solar plexus if I was ever in a serious fight. But no one ever told me where it was.
January 20, 2008
kewpid commented on the word solar plexus
A plexus is a network of nerves, so I guess this refers to the "central network of nerves" ?
January 20, 2008
yarb commented on the word solar plexus
I think it's the little dent at the bottom of your breastbone - where your ribcage bifurcates.
January 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word solar plexus
My ribcage does no such thing! It...
Oh.
January 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word solar plexus
"Nevertheless, a point between the heart and the solar plexus would not relax, and never would relax in this life. A point which knows that in an environment like this, surrounded by gold and white and damask and annual incomes never below a million kroner, if one has been born a Gypsy, one must have come to the wrong place."
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 18, 2008